A PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT SALVERS FROM THE RABY AMBASSADORIAL PLATE

Lot 177
07.07.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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ID 992626
Lot 177 | A PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT SALVERS FROM THE RABY AMBASSADORIAL PLATE
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
A PAIR OF QUEEN ANNE SILVER-GILT SALVERS FROM THE RABY AMBASSADORIAL PLATE

MARK OF PHILIP ROLLOS, LONDON, 1705, THE ENGRAVING ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN ROLLOS

Each circular on spreading cylindrical foot, with gadrooned border, applied on reverse with a cut-card calyx, engraved in the centre with the Royal arms and monogram AR, marked on field and foot

11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm.) diameter

78 oz. 10 dwt. (2,443 gr.)

The Royal arms are for Queen Anne (1702-1714) of Great Britain and Ireland.





Provenance

Granted by the Royal Warrant of Queen Anne (1702-1714) to Thomas Wentworth, Baron Raby later 3rd Earl of Strafford (1672-1739) for his embassy to Prussia, then by descent,

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 27 June 1963, lot 50.

A Gentleman; Christie's, London, 14 December 1966, lot 80.

Palladio Stiftung; Christie's, London, 25 June 1975, lot 118.

A European Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 11 April 2003, lot 334.



Literature

The Jewel House Delivery Book, 1698-1731/2, Public Record Office Mss. LC9/44, folio 184, the collection of tazze from the Jewel House.

V. Brett, The Sotheby's Dictionary of Silver, London, 1986, no. 669.

C. Truman ed., The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, London, 1989, no. 50, p. 75.



Exhibited

London, Christie's, The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, no. 50.



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